Definition of Chap

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Definition of Chap

Chap

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

To strike; to beat.

To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

To strike; to knock; to rap.

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

A division; a breach, as in a party.

A blow; a rap.

One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.

A buyer; a chapman.

A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.

To bargain; to buy.

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Chap Quotations

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
Evelyn Waugh

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"
P. G. Wodehouse

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
Alex Cox

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.
Damon Runyon

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.
Edward G. Robinson

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
Errol Flynn

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Allan Massie

A bowler can make or break a chap.
John Newton

Chap Translations

chap in Dutch is sujet, kerel, knul, snuiter, persoon
chap in Finnish is olio
chap in French is fissure
chap in German is Bursche
chap in Italian is crepatura, fante
chap in Norwegian is fyr, kar, sprekk
chap in Portuguese is rachadura
chap in Spanish is raja
chap in Swedish is kille, grabb, karl

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